Watching older dreams grow dim...
Hi, everyone!
Well, it's been awhile since I've made a proper LJ posting. I've been busy, as you'll soon discover.
My school musical opens next Thursday for about five hundred kids from local elementary schools. We're doing "Fiddler on the Roof" and it's coming along great. Which is good, because the show's in less than a week. It's pretty cool, because my ancestors were probably Jewish at some point, because my dad's family is Polish. By the time they came over to America they were Catholic, but still. I do so love the cast, we're all really good friends for the most part. Freshmen are mostly dumb, but you can't have everything. Yesterday my brother and I played the in-my-pants game with songs from the score. (If you don't know, you play said game by adding "in my pants" to the end of a song/book/movie.) It was hilarious. The best one by far was for a song called "Now I Have Everything." xD It didn't help that it's a song for a couple.
But as amazing as this experience is and has been, it's been taking up a lot of my time. Rehearsals go on so that some days I'm at school for twelve hours, either learning or rehearsing. So I've hardly opened the game all month. But the musical's done next Sunday, and then I'm on Easter vacation for two weeks. So the songstories for "Every Time It Rains" and "The Ghost of You" should be up pretty soon after the musical's done. I promise. And after that we have the next chapter and Vanessa can finally advance in her pregnancy. Poor dear, she's such a good little housewife and a complacent Sim.
But somehow, these two endeavors have crossed over and some of the songs from "Fiddler" have set themselves to my characters and future plotlines, "Sunrise Sunset" and "Far From the Home I Love" taking most of the attention. I rewrote the latter to "Far From the Home I Loved" and one ending lyric in "Sunrise Sunset" to better suit my purposes. Songstories, hooray!
"Sunrise Sunset" is the song at the wedding at concludes Act One of the show. It's a song about parents watching their children grow up, and of how time passes too quickly at times. Most of it worked for my idea, but I had to change one part at the end. The sister of the bride, Hodel, sings a bit with her love interest, Perchik. It goes, "They look so natural together / Just like two newlyweds should be / Is there a canopy in store for me?" Because in a Jewish wedding there's a canopy. Good stuff. But my characters aren't Jewish, and the character intended for this lyric is actually in love with the groom. So I had to change it or else it would just be weird.
My revised lyric, taken almost sarcastically: "They look so natural together / Just like two newlyweds should be / I should have known that he'd never love me."
"Far From the Home I Loved" was changed completely in meaning. This song's another one with Hodel; Perchik, a radical, has been exiled to Siberia and the song is sung as she is leaving to join him. It expresses her regret at leaving, but how she and Perchik have new dreams together, and even though she loves home, she loves him more. The character I've intended it for wanted to leave, and badly. So totally different meaning.
Original: Far From the Home I Love
My version:
How can I hope to make you understand
Why I do
What I do?
Why I have traveled from a distant land
Far from the home I loved.
Once I was happily content to be
As I was
Where I was
Close to the people who were close to me
There in the home I loved.
Who could see that all this would come
That would change the shape of my dreams?
Helpless now, I stand with him
Watching...older dreams grow dim.
Not such a melancholy choice this is
I don't want home, I want him
I've closed my heart to every hope but his
I've left the home I loved.
There where my heart had settled long ago
I must go...I must go.
Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so
Far from the home I loved?
And here with my love
I'm home.
I'm planning songstories for both of them, but far off in the future...especially at my current rate. D:
Just letting you all know where everything stands with me. I sort of disappeared from my own journal. Everything should be back on track as soon as the musical's done.
Quote of the Day: "Money is the world's curse." "May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!"
~June